[OSM-talk] Label language on the Default stylesheet

[Jo]

Vector based rendering is just around the corner, I keep hearing.

2017-09-25 12:39 GMT+02:00 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:

> That's why you could have text rendered via JavaScript and not in the JPG
> itself....
>
> On Sep 25, 2017 6:37 AM, "Jo" <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1000 - 7000 extra layers? That's give or take the number of languages in
>> existence... depending on who you ask, but even adding 500 extra layers is
>> not a practical endeavour.
>>
>> 2017-09-25 12:15 GMT+02:00 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I think Latin as default is disrespectful to areas like Japan which
>>> might not be able to read Latin letters as they have kana for non-japanese
>>> words. It's a bit biased to ask if Latin should be the default on a Latin
>>> based list(letters not language).I'm sure there would be a different
>>> opinion if you asked on talk-jp or any other list(non-latin)
>>>
>>> Ideally it should be a layer per language: English everywhere, Japanese
>>> everywhere, Arabic everywhere, etc etc
>>>
>>> On Sep 25, 2017 6:02 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/24/2017 11:01 PM, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [...]For example, we have a label 北京市 for Beijing, a label موريتانيا
>>>>> for
>>>>> Mauritania, and a label Magyarország for Hungary.
>>>>>
>>>>> The openstreetmap-carto team quite frequently receives requests to
>>>>> (additionally) display labels in English (or in any case the
>>>>> Latin-alphabet). [...]
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why not use the Latin language itself for an additional label to
>>>> non-Latin alphabet titles? It is readily available in Google translator and
>>>> also in Wikipedia. Here are these titles in Latin:
>>>>
>>>> https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechinum
>>>>
>>>> https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungaria
>>>>
>>>> https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Oleksiy
>>>>
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